Homestead Furniture Making Contest was a 2007 contest. It is noteworthy for being the first ever contest and event on ROBLOX. It began on January 17, 2007, and ended on January 20, 2007. It was first announced in blog post.[1] The winners were announced in a forum post. However, due to the removal of the forums the thread containing the winners can no longer be found except for this page.
Entrance Procedure
In order to enter the contest users had to publish their entry as a model using ROBLOX Studio. Then, the user had to post a link to their model are no longer existent.[2] Homestead Contest Thread, which was in the Creations Forum. The model needed to have a brief description.[3]
Judging Criteria
Points were awarded to entries on the basis of creativity, construction, attention to detail, attention to scale. It was mentioned in the blog post.[4] That the point of this exercise is to provide new players with cool furniture for their house.
Bonus points
The first user to post a decent description in the Homestead Contest Thread would get bonus points in the judging.
Winners and Rewards
Add a photo to this gallery| “ | When I started this contest I really was planning to pick just one grand prize winner. I was not anticipating the submission of so many high-quality models. You guys have saved me a lot of time creating all this furniture from scratch, so it seems like the only fair thing to do is to give a customized character to everyone who submitted a model that we actually used. | ” |
| - Telamon | ||
Grand Prize Winners
Trivia
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- This blog post which announced the beginning of this contest contained the first mention of Happy Home in Robloxia, a place which would go on to be one of the most iconic places in Roblox history due to it being a starting place for new users for a very long time.
References
- ↑ https://blog.roblox.com/2007/01/homestead-furniture-making-contest/
- ↑ http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=13000
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20160405102024/http://forum.roblox.com:80/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=13000
- ↑ https://blog.roblox.com/2007/01/homestead-furniture-making-contest/
